Rio de Janeiro

Hola!
Now we have already spent three days in Rio. It is great!
This is the coldest summer in years, only about 30 degrees...It is cloudy, but we do have a great time although.
When we arrived at the airport in Rio, our luggage was of course missing..
So we got 100euro each to shop the things we needed, and Air France will pay the bill :o)
Jandira met us somewhere along Copacabana beach and took us home to her apartment. The beach is right outside her apartment!!!
We met her husband, her oldest daughter and her husband and Jandira's nephew.
Through these three days, we have slept in Jandira's church. The pastor welcomed us warmly.
First day we spent some time with Jandira's family where we ate lunch, then we went to the beach and to the mall which was really huge.
Second day we ate breakfast at Copacabana beach. Water-and honeymelon.
After a few hours at the beach, we went to the Statue of Christ. We had a good view to all the parts of Rio de Janeiro. It was a bit cold up there, and very windy, but if was totally worth it!
At night, Jandira, her daughter's husband and a friend of their family took us out on a roadtrip. We got to see pretty much of the citylife.
Third day we went up the slum together with Jandira and the pastor from the church. The slum is all around the church we've lived in. To see all the poor and the ones that the church was helping, really touched us. We were lucky to meet two different families in two very different situations. Both of the meetings did a very huge impression.
Then we went for lunch at Jandira's house (very good lunch by the way), before Jandira took us downtown. From here, we took a tram-looking-thing up to the old city. The tram was about hundred years old, so the one we where in broke when we where almost halfway. :o)
One o'clock this evening, we are unfortunately leaving Rio. We are going to Sau Paulo by bus. Jandira helped uss to find a nice hostel in Sao Paulo.
We are very thankful to Jandira and her family for welcoming us, showing us around and taking very good care of us. Hope all her dreams about a new daycare will come true.

Pictures from Rio will be here in a couple of days:o)
In the meantime, write us some comments ;o)